Despite What Corporate Media Tells You, Bernie Sanders’ Positions Are Mainstream

[Lodestar]

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination, has trouble being taken seriously by the corporate media, what with him being a democratic socialist and all.

If you go to Google News and put in his name, you get headlines about him being nothing more than a protest candidate, or having “odd views,” or promoting “dark age economics.”

But Sanders’s positions are quite mainstream from the point of view of the stances of the American public in general. Of course, the 1 percent, for whom and by whom most mainstream media report, are appalled and would like to depict him as an outlier.

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http://billmoyers.com/2015/06/01/mainstream-bernie-sanders/

[ret5hd]

1. Bill Moyers is a solid spokesperson.

[SHRED]

5. Its a Juan Cole article from last June

Still relevant.

[Newkularblue]

2. Well said comrade Moyers

[ret5hd]

3. You're a goddamned genius Forrest Gump!!!

[daleanime]

4. What is problem comrade?

Not sufficiently feeling of Socialist Spirit? No worries, we have ways of giving you health care.

[Dustlawyer]

6. So your anti-socialism stance must mean that you are against police and fire department, all

branches of our military, and our network of roads and highways to name a few. We pool some of our money to pay for these things because it's the only way to have them. The way things have been going, medical care and higher education are logical, and even necessary additions. We already have public education for pre-K through 12th grade.

I think that maybe you have bought into the corporate media propaganda that says Socialism is all bad!

Capitalism is good to as long as it is well regulated, but the corporate and Plutocratic campaign Donors have pushed the meme that regulations are the problem. When coupled with the dramatic cuts to our regulatory system, where the regulatory agencies cannot regulate their industries because they get little money and are headed by industry insiders, this leads to things like the petrochemical industry self regulating. This is what we have now and that is why we have things like the Gulf oil spill, coal and other mining slurry pits draining into our rivers, and the increases in mining, drilling, and refining accidents as well as illegal polluters.

You might want to take the blinders off, you will see better.

[Newkularblue]

7. Blows whistle

Flag for misuse of sarcasm thingy

I was trying to project the HC crowds response...

Apologies

[Nitram]

8. Bernie's ideas should be mainstream.

But many Americans have been brainwashed to believe rich people are generous, corporations sell products to help people, and foreigners are not to be trusted.